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The realism and psychological intensity of William Strang's work is thanks largely to the particular influence of Alphonse Legros who he studied under at the Slade. An intensity of colour came to dominate Strang's output in the latter half of his career.
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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this is the guy who wrote that piece btw - a ticket scalper in LA
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Bertha Boronda.
Charged with "mayhem" for slicing off her husband's you-know-what with a straight razor.
Apprehended while disguised, wearing men's clothing and mounting a bicycle to make her escape
San Jose, California. 1908.
Mayhem indeed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_...
December 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Cat sculpture by French twin sculptors Jan and Joël Martel, posed next to a cat, possibly the model for the statuette, 1926.
December 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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chrisplummer.bsky.social
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
“It is the “Citizen Kane” of second-screen entertainment. Every frame rewards inattention.” I reviewed Fountain of Youth. With my flamethrower. Dear lord, what a lump of nothing. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/foun...
Fountain of Youth movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
The "Citizen Kane" of second-screen entertainment.
www.rogerebert.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM